The Base of the Pyramid in Focus
Interviews conducted with some of the leaders and innovators in attendance at the William Davidson Institute’s 2013 BoP Summit.
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Wednesday
October 30
2013
Interviews conducted with some of the leaders and innovators in attendance at the William Davidson Institute’s 2013 BoP Summit.
Interviews
Friday
November 1
2013
Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, has about 100 million reasons for looking toward innovative ways to partner and collaborate with social enterprises, development agencies and NGOs. I caught up with her at the BoP Summit last month to talk about new modes of thinking around public-private partnerships.
Thursday
November 7
2013
Gaurav Gupta, Dalberg’s regional director for Asia, says the broader base of the pyramid business space should avoid defining itself from a negative perspective, i.e. failures. Instead we should emphasize strides in reducing the BoP sector as a whole.
Interviews
Thursday
November 14
2013
From a traditional business perspective, social enterprise seems to be built upon a contradiction. How can you run a company whose ultimate goal is to foster and empower competitors rather than defeat them? That’s one of the topics discussed by Steve Wright, vice president of Grameen Foundation’s Poverty Tools & Insights division, in this BoP Summit 2013 interview.
Thursday
November 21
2013
Confronting the global economic crisis in recent years, Danone came up with an ambitious new business model that includes all the stakeholders in its ecosystem: employees, customers, farmers, suppliers, subcontractors, transporters, distributors, the places where it operates.
Interviews
Thursday
November 28
2013
Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States, so we’re taking time to think about the farmers that bring forth our bounty, not just in the U.S., but around the world. NextBillion managing editor Scott Anderson spoke with Stephanie Hanson, Director of Policy and Outreach at One Acre Fund, a nonprofit based in East Africa that provides loans, training and other agricultural services to farmers in four countries.
Friday
December 6
2013
Graham Macmillan has been on both sides of the social enterprise funding question. Before joining the Citi Foundation as senior program officer - financial inclusion, he served as senior director of VisionSpring. Macmillan carries the perspective of both of the donor/investor evaluating partnerships and deals, as well as that of a social entrepreneur with practical concerns like trying reach that all-elusive scale, making sustainable profits and securing investors.
Wednesday
January 29
2014
Madhu Viswanathan believes “bottom up” methods are too often neglected when thinking about BoP business development. Viswanathan, a business professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, hopes to shift that imbalance in a new e-book, Subsistence Marketplaces.